Best Refactored Podcasts (2025)

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How to Build Product Development Teams 🛠️ — with Rob Zuber 1:09:12

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Today's guest is Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI!With Rob, we talked about software delivery, the impact of AI, and how to build great product engineering teams. And next, we discuss trade-offs between standardization versus flexibility in software organizations, and lessons learned from our respective past mistakes.(00:00) Preview(01:22) Introduction(0…

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Why Your Code Dies in Six Months: Automated Refactoring 32:58

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Incident.io - https://dev0ps.fyi/incidentio Warren is joined by Olga Kundzich, Co-founder and CTO of Moderne, to discuss the reality of technical debt in modern software engineering. Olga reveals a shocking statistic: without maintenance, cloud-native applications often cease to function within just six months. And …

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Episode 36: Refactor vs Rewrite 1:07:05

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@1xDeveloperPodcast X/Twitter: https://x.com/1xDevPodcast Email: [email protected] Collin & Brendan

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Domain-Driven Refactoring • Alessandro Colla, Alberto Acerbis & Xin Yao 42:47

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/389 Alessandro Colla - Partner & Head of Development at Evoluzione & Co-Author of "Domain-Driven Refactoring" Alberto Acerbis - Software Architect at Intré & Co-Author of "Domain-Driven Re…

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How to Discover the Binary System as a Child • Simon Peyton Jones & Chelsea Troy 25:47

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Simon Peyton Jones - Key Contributor of Haskell & Engineering Fellow at Epic Games Chelsea Troy - MLOps Tech Lead at Mozilla & Lecturer at University of Chicago RESOURCES Simon https://simon.peytonjones.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones https://www.linkedin.com…

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SE Radio 696: Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI 1:14:25

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Flavia Saldanha, a consulting data engineer, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss the evolution of data engineering from ETL (extract, transform, load) and data lakes to modern lakehouse architectures enriched with vector databases and embeddings. Flavia explains the industry's shift from treating data as a service to treating it as a product, emp…

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Breaking the Architecture Bottleneck • Andrew Harmel-Law & Marit van Dijk 39:54

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture" Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion & Open Source Contributor RESOURCES Andrew https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.c…

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Markdown Renderer & MIME Type in Rails 8.1 5:10

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Rails 8.1 introduces a new Markdown MIME Type and renderer to better integrate your apps with AI and other tools that use MarkdownBy Chris Oliver

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Episode 488: How do I survive in a culture of optics and jira slacker 30:38

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Dave and Jamison, Big fan of the show — listening from Portugal! (Proof that even across the Atlantic, software politics are universal.) I’m a tech lead, and lately I’ve noticed a culture where people seem to care way more about how things look than what actually gets done. It’s like the…

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How to Get People Excited about Functional Programming • Russ Olsen & James Lewis 38:06

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This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. https://gotocph.com Russ Olsen - Author of "Getting Clojure" & "Eloquent Ruby" James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks RESOURCES Russ https://bsky.app/profile/russolsen.bsky.social https://hachyderm.io/@russolsen https://github.com/russolsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/russols…

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SE Radio 695: Dave Thomas on Building eBooks Infrastructure 1:02:49

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Dave Thomas, author of The Pragmatic Programmer, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Programming Elixir, Simplicity, and co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building infrastructure for eBooks. They discuss what an eBook is, the various forma…

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Episode 37: The Engineering MINDSET 1:07:31

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@1xDeveloperPodcast X/Twitter: https://x.com/1xDevPodcast Email: [email protected] Collin & Brendan

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Beyond the Hype: Real Talk on AI-Assisted Development • Jessica Kerr & Diana Montalion 36:38

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Jessica Kerr - Engineering Manager of Developer Relation at Honeycomb.io & Symmathecist Diana Montalion - Systems Architect, Mentrix Founder & Author of "Learning Systems Thinking" RESOURCES Jessica https://bsky.app/profile/jessitron.bsky.social https://linkedin.com/in/jessicaker…

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Module extend self 4:55

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Using extend self inside a Ruby module makes all of its instance methods callable directly on the module itself, which is useful when you want a collection of utility-style methods without needing to instantiate an object.By Chris Oliver

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Episode 487: My manager ignores me during 1:1's and I am required to work in an empty office 36:18

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: “My manager insists on a weekly 1:1 with me, but he rarely pays attention. He’s often on his laptop, texting, checking email — basically anything but listening. I’ve tried sending agendas, rescheduling, reducing frequency, waiting until he’s less busy — nothing helps. I’ve even started sitti…

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From Hardware Hacker to CTO: Building Teams That Scale • Meri Williams & Charles Humble 56:29

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/388 Meri Williams - CTO at Pleo & Advisor at Skiller Whale & Kindred Capital Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant RESOURCES Meri https://x.com/Geek_Manager https…

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SE Radio 694: Jennings Anderson and Amy Rose on Overture Maps 1:03:45

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Jennings Anderson, a Software Engineer with Meta Platforms, and Amy Rose, the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Overture Maps project, which creates reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. After exploring the foundations of geospatial information systems, Gregory an…

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Real-World Java • Victor Grazi, Jeanne Boyarsky & Barry Burd 37:30

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/393 Victor Grazi - Oracle Java Champion & Co-Author of "Real-World Java" Jeanne Boyarsky - Oracle Java Champion, Co-Author of "Real-World Java" & "OCP 21 Java Cert Book" Barry Burd - Profe…

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Episode 486: No one on my team talks and skip level meetings 29:19

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work at a big tech company on a remote team of about 10 people, and most of them have been here for 5+ years. I’m in the “newer” half of the team with 4 years here. My problem is, in group meetings, absolutely NO ONE talks. I mean zero small talk, they have trouble responding to simple yes…

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Buffalo Wings and Livewire Things 58:03

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In this episode we discuss Andy's recent office revamp, his trip to Buffalo for a conference, and the MCP tools they use in their development work. They delve into the integration of AI tools like Claude and MCPs, the importance of code quality with PHP Stan, and the future of AI in development.By Andy Hinkle & Dalton McCleery

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The Debugging Book • Andreas Zeller & Clare Sudbery 51:02

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/387 Prof. Andreas Zeller - Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security & Author of "The Debugging Book" Clare Sudbery - Independent Technical Coach RESOURCES Andreas https://bsky.app/profile/andreaszell…

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From Knowledge to Wisdom 🧠 — with Hywel Carver 58:32

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Today's guest is Hywel Carver! Hywel is co-founder and CEO of Skiller Whale, which provides live team coaching for software engineering teams. With Hywel, we got deep into what makes traditional developer training awful, what engineers truly learn and what they should learn. Then we explored how to measure the impact of learning and how AI may poss…

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SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging 54:12

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Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss AI-assisted debugging. The conversation is structured around three main objectives: understanding how AI can serve as a debugging assistant; examining AI-powered debugging tools; exploring whether AI debuggers can independently find and fix bugs. Mark highlights how AI can suppor…

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Episode 485: I'm terrible at hiring decisions and my coworker spams us with AI-generated memes 43:53

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: What signals do you look for when interviewing candidates? I’ve helped interview many people at this point and almost all of the engineers that I marked as “hire” that we brought on board ended up being low performers and were eventually managed out. I wasn’t the only one who approved them e…

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20+ Years in Tech: Things We Wish We Knew Sooner • Daniel Terhorst-North & Kevlin Henney 41:21

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This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. https://gotocph.com Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer RESOURCES Daniel https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com https://twitter.com/tast…

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

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Share Episode Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month. The conversation dives deep into "Agen…

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SE Radio 692: Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection 1:04:36

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Sourabh Satish, CTO and co-founder of Pangea, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about prompt injection. Sourabh begins with the basic concepts underlying prompt injection and the key risks it introduces. From there, they take a deep dive into the OWASP Top 10 security concerns for LLMs, and Sourabh explains why prompt injection is the top ris…

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Building Support Structures • Flavia Circiumaru & Hannes Lowette 38:26

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/386 Flavia Circiumaru - Software Engineer at FundApps Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover RESOURCES Flavia https://x.com/FlavsFA https://github…

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Episode 484: How to get a raise after slacking off for YEARS and my PM won't stop DM'ing me 29:27

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi! Love your show and how casually you talk and make fun of everything! I started my career as a freelancer and then joined a mid-size software development company to learn how the sausage is really made, salary wasn’t that important back then. A few kids and a lot more expensive lifestyle …

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Elm & Open Source: What's Next? • Evan Czaplicki & Kris Jenkins 45:21

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This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. https://gotocph.com Evan Czaplicki - Creator and developer of Elm Kris Jenkins - Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Podcast Host, Conference Speaker & Geek RESOURCES Evan https://twitter.com/evancz https://github.com/evancz Kris https://twitter.com/krisajenkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/kr…

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Reflecting on Timur and Phil 1:02:18

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Timur and Phil reflect on Phil and Timur. We share some personal updates as well as news from the community. News "Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust" - post from DataBento "C++ reflection (P2996) and moc" - from Qt wiki "Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?" - from Herb's blog Links Episode 376, with Rainer…

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The AI Transformation at Intercom 🤖 — with Darragh Curran 55:27

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Today's guest is Darragh Curran! Darragh is the CTO of Intercom, which is one of the world's leading customer service products with more than 600 million users. With Darragh, we talked about how AI poses at the same time an existential risk and an incredible opportunity for Intercom, and how this led them to the decision of creating a completely se…

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Episode 35: Tech interviewing is broken 1:08:06

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@1xDeveloperPodcast X/Twitter: https://x.com/1xDevPodcast Email: [email protected] Collin & Brendan

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SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database 59:51

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Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and the foundational concepts undergirding similarity search, they dive deep into the Rust-based implementation of Qdrant. Along with comparing and contrasti…

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Platform Engineering: From Theory to Practice • Liz Fong-Jones & Lesley Cordero 38:42

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. http://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/384 Liz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.io Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times RESOURCES Liz https://bsky.app/profile/lizthegrey.com https://github.com/lizth…

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Deploying Rails 8 with Hatchbox 31:15

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Let's look at how we can easily deploy a Rails 8 application using the solid trifecta of gems with Hatchbox.By Chris Oliver

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Episode 483: My team hated me from day one and should I stack PTO before my resignation 38:22

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: How would you handle a situation where a team forms a negative opinion about you from day one — without any clear reason and without ever giving you a real chance to prove yourself? Even when you contribute technically, your suggestions are ignored… until someone else repeats the same thing …

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are har…

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Infrastructure as Code • Kief Morris & Abby Bangser 34:46

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/385 Kief Morris - Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks Abby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies Advocate RESOURCES Kief https:…

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SE Radio 690: Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems 1:03:44

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Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts with a brief overview of such systems, and an introduction to Rust, emphasizing aspects that make it well-suited for critical environments. Florian and…

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Tech Leadership Challenges: Communication & AI at Financial Times • Alice Bartlett & Charles Humble 44:03

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/382 Alice Bartlett - Tech Director for Customer Products at Financial Times Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant RESOURCES Alice https://x.com/alicebartlett http…

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Episode 482: I got a promotion, but a tiny raise and an imposter interviewed for my team 31:47

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: After a year of trying, I recently got promoted to staff engineer! It’s great to receive recognition for my work, but i’m not actually very happy, because I only got a 4% raise! I spoke with a former coworker about how much a staff engineer in my role should expect, and he said that he would…

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Simplicity • Pragmatic Dave Thomas & Sarah Taraporewalla 38:44

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/383 Pragmatic Dave Thomas - Pragmatic Programmer Turned Publisher Sarah Taraporewalla - CTO APAC at Thoughtworks RESOURCES Dave https://pragdave.me https://twitter.com/pragdave https://git…

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Reflection and C++26, with Herb Sutter 1:03:12

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Phil and Timur are joined by Herb Sutter to catch up on what's going in to C++26 which, let's be honest, is dominated by reflection. News CLion now has a constexpr debugger "CMake for complex projects" - tutorial: Part one Part two Safe C++ proposal is not being continued Episode with Sean Baxter Links Herb's Reflection talk at CppCon 2025 Herb's C…